Fortuin-Miller title fight fiasco gives boxing a bloody nose

Results chaos causes unnecessary distress

Boxing has suffered a black eye due to incompetence from BSA’s provincial manager, Phakamile Jacobs. His duty was simple: to add scores by the judges from the first until the last round and come up with the winner.

How he got that wrong remains a mystery, and now Sharadene Fortuin and Melissa Miller went through stressfulmoments not knowing exactly who emerged victorious for the SA bantamweight title in East London last weekend...

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